Anatomy of a Queensland Report Comment: One Example, Move by Move
A Queensland comment needs knowledge, evidence and a next step. We take a Year 3 English comment apart to show each part at work.
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Queensland comments are built around three essentials: what the student knows and can do against the achievement standard, the evidence, and where to next. Strong ones add a second skill and a home link. Here is a Year 3 English comment for a student awarded a C, the result that says "meets the standard", taken apart in five moves.
Noah reads Year 3 texts with fluency and can retell the main events in order, as he showed in his book review of “The Twits”. In his imaginative writing he builds a clear beginning, problem and ending, and he is starting to use paragraphs. Noah's next step is to choose more precise verbs and adjectives to help the reader picture his characters. Reading together and talking about the words authors choose will help.
Move 1: knowledge and understanding
Reading
“reads Year 3 texts with fluency and can retell the main events in order”
Move 2: evidence
Evidence
“as he showed in his book review of The Twits”
Move 3: skills, the second strand
Writing
“builds a clear beginning, problem and ending, and he is starting to use paragraphs”
Move 4: where to next
Next step
“choose more precise verbs and adjectives”
Move 5: the home link
Home link
“talking about the words authors choose”
The same comment at other results
- A or B: show the student going beyond the standard ("explains how the author builds humour") and give a next step that extends.
- D or E: say what the student can do with support, name the most important gap, and say what is in place to help.
- Prep: use the Prep scale's language (for example "working with") and describe observed behaviours, not a grade.
Keep the finished comment within your school's length, often 70 to 100 words, before it goes into OneSchool. For the descriptors behind each result, see our Queensland achievement scales guide.
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